The BBC has put Prof. Jeff Jarvis’s book, Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News, on its list of Ten Books to Read in February.
The book, published by CUNY Journalism Press/OR Books, explores new opportunities for reimagining and sustaining journalism.
According to the BBC, Jarvis says his new book is the answer to the question he often hears: “So now that your damned, beloved internet has ruined news, what now?”
The BBC’s blurb also says: “He explores alternative futures, looking at how the emerging forms of journalism interact with the skills and core beliefs of the past. He affirms the rules of journalism – accuracy, fairness, completeness. At the core, he concludes, ‘We serve citizens and communities.”
Jarvis is director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY J-School. He is also the author of What Would Google Do? and Gutenberg the Geek.